Egor Pavlovich Popov (; February 6, 1913 – April 19, 2001) was a structural and seismic engineer who helped transform the design of buildings, structures, and civil engineering around earthquake-prone regions. A relative of inventor Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Egor Popov was born in

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and after moving to the United States of America in 1927, he eventually earned a B.S. from

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, his master's degree from MIT and his doctorate degree from Stanford in 1946. During his career, Popov was primarily famous for his work doing research for the

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. Some of his accomplishments include: working with buckling problems for

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in Houston, Texas, involvement with the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, assisting with pipe testing for the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, developing the Steel Moment Resisting Frame ( resistance to earthquake forces), and eccentrically braced frames (ebf's).

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*''Introduction to Mechanics of Solids'', Prentice Hall, 1968. *''Mechanics of Materials'', 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1976. *''Engineering Mechanics of Solids'', 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1998.

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